Nutrition

Junk Food Takes Another Killing Blow

By Frank M. Painter|January 12, 2010|Nutrition|

Junk Food Takes Another Killing Blow

SOURCE: Br J Psychiatry 2009 (Nov);195 (5): 408-13

Akbaraly TN, Brunner EJ, Ferrie JE, Marmot MG,
Kivimaki M, Singh-Manoux A.

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
University College London,
London WC1E 6BT, UK.

A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry revealed a direct correlation between diet and depression. Most earlier studies on diet and depression focused primarily on individual nutrients rather than on overall diet. That’s what makes this new study so interesting.

These researchers defined 2 primary dietary patterns: “whole food oriented” (heavily loaded by vegetables, fruits and fish) and “processed foods oriented” (heavily loaded by sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy products). (more…)

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JAMA Recognizes Soy Food Intake and Breast Cancer Survival

By Frank M. Painter|December 29, 2009|Nutrition|

JAMA Recognizes Soy Food Intake and Breast Cancer Survival

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SOURCE: J American Medical Association 2009 (Dec 9); 302 (22): 2437–2443

Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, 2525 West End Ave, Ste 600, Nashville, TN 37203-1738, USA. xiao-ou.shu@vanderbilt.edu

Soy foods are rich in isoflavones, a major group of phytoestrogens that have been hypothesized to reduce the risk of breast cancer. To evaluate the association of soy food intake after diagnosis of breast cancer, with total mortality and cancer recurrence, 5033 surgically treated breast cancer patients were tracked for more than 3 years.

Soy food intake, as measured by either soy protein or soy isoflavone intake, was found to be inversely associated with mortality and recurrence. The researchers concluded that soy food consumption is significantly associated with decreased risk of death and recurrence of breast cancer. (more…)

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AAFP Makes Deal With Coke For “Educational” Content

By Frank M. Painter|November 28, 2009|Education, Nutrition|

AAFP Makes Deal With Coke For “Educational” Content

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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has struck a deal with Coca-Cola to sponsor its consumer-focused website, familydoctor.org

Amusingly enough, the AAFP’s Consumer Alliance is a program that allows corporate partners like The Coca-Cola Company to work with them to educate consumers about the role their products can play in a healthy, active lifestyle. Isn’t that amazing? (more…)

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Do You Recommend Supplementation In Your Practice?

By Frank M. Painter|November 2, 2009|Education, Nutrition|

Do You Recommend Supplementation In Your Practice?

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If you do, or wish you knew more, we have a variety of nutrition resources that you may find useful:

Our most extensive resource contains articles, arranged by condition, from the esteemed Alternative Medicine Review.
Our Nutrition Section begins with the Supplement Section, providing non-solicitous information regarding the benefits of various vitamins, minerals and herbals. (more…)

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The NEW, “The New Oxford Book of Food Plants”

By stevev|September 20, 2009|Books, Education, Health, Nutrition|

The following is taken from TheScientist.com’s Blog entry from Friday (09/18/2009) Posted by Margaret Guthrie:

“The book presents detailed nutritional information on food plants, including insight into hybridization and genetic modification, such as genetic engineering to reduce cell-wall softening in tomatoes, one of the world’s most popular “vegetables.” …… Details of vegetative components are given, along with analysis of “other biologically active substances” like antioxidants, flavonoids and tannins.

Not given over entirely to facts, charts and tables, The New Oxford Book of Food Plants also contains quirky passages that entertain as they illuminate. For example, nestled into the entry for spinach: “[Spinach] was reputed to have very high content of iron but this is a myth due to the incorrect placing of a decimal point in the calculations of Dr. von Wolf at the end of the nineteenth century, although recalculated in the 1930s.”

All in all, The New Oxford Book of Food Plants is an essential and engaging reference for everyone from casual readers and curious cooks to nutritionists and food writers. The book is due in bookstores on September 25.

The New Oxford Book of Food Plants, 2nd Edition, by J.G. Vaughan and C.A. Geissler, Oxford University Press USA, 2009. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-0-199-54946-7. $39.95.”

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Let’s Talk Supplements: Part II

By Frank M. Painter|September 8, 2009|Nutrition|

Let’s Talk Supplements: Part II

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In the last year there has been a disappointing series of nutritional studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA was rabidly opposed to supplementation until 2002, when they finally published an excellent article that proposed that taking supplements could reduce the risk of chronic disease. [1] That article was right on the money. This recent group of articles challenges those findings, but you will soon find that they were all seriously flawed. Let’s review these clinical trials, and consider how asking the wrong question can yield the wrong answers, and how that process generates negative bias against supplementation. The first study we will discuss is the:

Physicians’ Health Study II (more…)

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